Feel your body as sensation. This is calling “sensing.” So, here’s the game that will set you free from the tyranny of so-called “thinking,” which is nothing more than the yammer in your brain.

Sense the three layers:

BOTTOM LAYER:

Your feet and toes and legs.

Your pelvis and hips.

Your relationship to gravity.

MIDDLE LAYER:

Your ribs and belly.

Your back and spine.

Your neck.

Your arms and shoulders and hands and fingers.

Your relationship to breathing.

The breath coming in.

The breath going out.

The breath moving your ribs and lungs and belly.

TOP:

Your eyes that see.

Your ears the hear.

Your tongue that talks (and other grand stuff)

Your mouth and/or nose as they breath in.

Your mouth and/or nose as they breath out.

Your head that balances on top of your spine.

Your smile or not smile on your mouth/ face.

This is you.

You are present and alive in this very beautiful moment. You are alive in air and body and breathing and seeing and hearing. (Which equals…being alive.)

You are alive in this your body in this moment in gravity ( Which equals being alive on the planet Earth)

Life is now. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS NOW OR NEVER.

We are in a body now. We are alive and on the planet Earth now. TO BE PRESENT IS TO SENSE THIS, IN THE MOMENT.

Life is usually mistakenly imprisoned up above the neck, as words in the head. We miss even our real experiences in the top layer of our smile or what we are seeing and hearing in the moment.

And the choice is huge, and often we forget we have it.

We can come into the three layer now of our real life in the real moment in our real body on this real planet of gravity and air and sound and light.

This is the miracle.

We are alive.

Now.

Our sex is often little more than abysmal thrashing around, if we even have a partner.

And often we don’t. We can’t find a partner in love.

And when we are searching for one, there is the lure of sex and partnership, and even (rarely) of friendship, but we so often are trying to create one of the most amazing, and yet one of the most difficult achievements of life on Earth — a fabulous love — without being present.

Robot A wants Robot B to love it.

Robot B wants Robot A to love it.

Two robots can’t love.

They can just want.

The solution.

Get present. Get grateful. Remember what we love. Realize what our deep and most meaningful goals are.

When, to get present?

This can only have one answer, right?

Now.

Now?

Yes, now.

Right now, of course, there’s another game.

When to play it?

Now.

As you read this book, here’s

SUPER GAME #2.2

AS YOU READ ( or listen to) THE REST OF THIS BOOK

SENSE THE BOTTOM LAYER, AT LEAST FEET AND PELVIS

SENSE THE MIDDLE LAYER, AT LEAST OF HANDS AND BREATHING IN AND BREATHING OUT

SENSE THE TOP LAYER OF SMILE OR NOT SMILE AND FEELING AIR COMING IN AND OUT OF YOUR NOSE AND/OR MOUTH.

Read just the bold print again while sensing, either all at once, or one at a time, the three layers.

Now, go back to the beginning of the chapter and read that while sensing, either all at once, or one at a time, the three layers.

And the super challenge: read (or listen to) the whole rest of the book that way. (Hint, feeling a smile on your face and putting just a tiny bit of attention on the genitals inside your pelvis will make this a lot more fun)

That sounds like “too much,” right?

And as you read these words, try to be in awareness of at least one of those layers.

And as you read these words, try to be in awareness of another layer.

And as you read these words, try to be in awareness of the third layer.

This is the miracle.

When you can talk to your mate, or to a stranger and have ANY awareness in ANY of these levels, you will be living, in that moment at a vastly more awake level.

At the level of the children who are our guide back into the kingdom of heaven.

And guess what?

When we move, it’s easier to have awareness in the body in the present.

So let’s give ourselves the present of being present as we move.

And how are we going to do that?

Big surprise: another game.

Game #2.3. MOVE SLOWLY AND EASILY WITH AWARENESS

A. Stand up.

Feel the floor under you and the breathing in your middle and the air coming in and out of your nose/ mouth.

B. Now move:

Raise up onto your toes, so your heels lift from the ground.

Stay there a bit

Come back down

Do this three times.

Do this almost as if “for its own sake.” Do this for the full and easy enjoyment of the movement and your awareness of yourself now alive and moving.

C. ADD ON BREATHING

1. As you come up onto your toes and raise your heels

Add on BREATHING IN

2. At the top, heels up a bit and neither raising any more, nor coming back down

Hold your breath a bit and smile

3. And as you

Come back down so your heels touch the ground

Breathe out

and notice how that feels in your middle layer

Do this three times for the pure enjoyment of up and down with breathing.

D. Now, do this three more times, as you practice awareness shifting from bottom, to middle, to top layer.

First time up and down with breath: notice the bottom layer

Second time up and down with breath: notice the middle layer

Third time up and down with breath: notice the top layer.

E. Walk around a bit.

Notice how you feel more full and alive.

F. Then do D again,

With three additions.

One: Add a smile.

Two: Now, go ahead and do three times of rotating your awareness to do one movement noticing bottom layer, one movement noticing middle layer, one layer noting top layer.

G. Do the three times of going though each layer again. And add on speaking aloud what you notice.

So each time you are going up and down and noticing a layer, say aloud,

“Now I am aware of…”

And state what you are aware of in that layer.

For example:

“Now I am aware of my heels going up and down”

“Now I am aware of my belly in my breathing.”

“Now I am aware of breathing in my nose.”

“Now I am aware of my hip joints”

“Now I am aware of my hands.”

“Not I am aware of my eyes seeing the sky outside the window”

“Now I am aware of my legs pressing down onto my feet.”

“Now I am aware of my ribs in my breathing.”

“Now I am aware of sounds of a bird outside coming in my ears.”

Needless to say, to do this as you are moving and breathing in coordination to your movement is a full menu.

And:

You, as a living person on this planet Earth, are a miraculously full menu.

This is you sensing and noticing and enjoying the fullness of your being alive. Right now. This feels good.

And..

You deserve it.

And, hey, you can do this three layer meditation anytime and all the time, if you like being rooted into the reality of being alive right now, on the planet right now, in your body right now.

This meditation requires nothing more than that you put your attention on what is always there:

Your legs and pelvis and Earth are always there.

Your hands and arms and breathing are always there.

Your breathing in at your nose or mouth and your eyes and ears are always there.

Life is usually up above the neck, and not in awareness of our smile or what we are seeing and hearing in the moment, but in the words in our head.

And the world is big and your body is full.

You have three layers:

Below the navel. The bottom layer. Your pelvis for movement and sitting and sexing.

Your feet and legs and toes for standing and running and walking and dancing and skiing and skating and all sorts of fun.

Below the neck, and above the navel.

This is where we move, sometimes easily, sometimes stiffly. This is where we breathe. This is often where we feel our emotional “feelings.”

This is where our arms come out and reach and caress and explore and change the world. Arms and hands and fingers, and the arms end near the body in the “shoulders,” which are the upper arm bone attaching to the shoulder blades, which float on the ribs.

To sense the miracle of arms and fingers and shoulder blades is a wonderful gift to ourselves, and almost always forgotten in the horribly small world of texting and moving a mouse around in cyber space.

Which is lost to reality.

What is your reality right now?

Sense your pelvis and feet.

Good.

Sense your hands and breathing.

Good.

Sense your smile/ or not smile and feel your head as an actual body part floating up on your spine.

Wake the fuck up.

In both senses.

We are asleep to reality.

Wake up to that.

Our sex is usual abysmal thrashing around, and we can’t find a partner in love and we aren’t present in either talk or touch or sex, and it can all start to turn around.

When.

Now.

Now?

Yes, now.

As you read this book, here’s

SUPER GAME #2.2

AS YOU READ THE REST OF THIS BOOK

SENSE THE BOTTOM LAYER, AT LEAST FEET AND PELVIS

SENSE THE MIDDLE LAYER, AT LEAST OF HANDS AND BREATHING IN AND BREATHING OUT

SENSE THE TOP LAYER OF SMILE OR NOT SMILE AND FEELING AIR COMING IN AND OUT OF YOUR NOSE AND/OR MOUTH.

That sounds like “too much,” right?

And as you read these words, try to be in awareness of at least one of those layers.

And as you read these words, try to be in awareness of another layer.

And as you read these words, try to be in awareness of the third layer.

This is the miracle.

When you can talk to your mate, or to a stranger and have ANY awareness in ANY of these levels, you will be living, in that moment at a vastly more awake level.

At the level of the children who are our guide back into the kingdom of heaven.

And guess what?

When we move, it’s easier to have awareness in the body in the present.

So let’s give ourselves the present of being present as we move.

And how are we going to do that?

Big surprise: another game.

Game #2.3. MOVE SLOWLY AND EASILY WITH AWARENESS

A. Stand up.

Feel the floor under you and the breathing in your middle and the air coming in and out of your nose/ mouth.

B. Now move:

Raise up onto your toes, so your heels lift from the ground.

Stay there a bit

Come back down

Do this three times.

For the full and easy enjoyment of the movement and your awareness of yourself now alive and moving.

C. ADD ON BREATHING

As you come up onto your toes and raise your heels

Add on BREATHING IN

At the top, heels up a bit and neither raising any more, nor coming back down

Hold your breath a bit and smile

And as you

Come back down so your heels touch the ground

Breathe out

and notice how that feels in your middle layer

Do this three times for the pure enjoyment of up and down with breathing.

D. Now, do this three more times, as you practice awareness shifting from bottom, to middle, to top layer.

First time up and down with breath: notice the bottom layer

Second time up and down with breath: notice the middle layer

Third time up and down with breath: notice the top layer.

E. Walk around a bit.

Notice how you feel more full and alive.

F. Then do D again,

With three additions.

One: Add a smile.

Two: Do this three times of three up and downs. Each time shifting attention from bottom, to middle to top layer.

Three: each time you are going up and down and noticing a layer, say aloud,

“Now I am aware of…”

And state what you are aware of in that layer.

For example:

“Now I am aware of my feet on the floor”

“Now I am aware of my belly in my breathing.”

“Now I am aware of breathing in my nose.”

“Now I am aware of my hip joints”

“Now I am aware of my hands.”

“Not I am aware of my eyes seeing…”

“Now I am aware of my legs resting down onto my feet.”

“Now I am aware of my ribs in my breathing.”

“Now I am aware of …. sounds coming in my ears.”

Needless to say, to do this as you are moving and breathing in coordination to your movement is a full menu.

And:

You deserve it.

Fuck yes, if you want a full life of sex and love and adventure, this ability to be aware, in the moment of your body at three levels is the start of a “raw enlightenment” that is both extremely powerful and extremely useful.

Powerful because it engages so much of your body as a here and now reality.

Useful because you can “do” this meditation in the car and at a meeting and on the phone and talking to your loved one and talking to your enemy and listening to music and walking down the hallways at work or at your home or taking a walk down your street.

Your legs and pelvis and Earth are always there.

Your hands and arms and breathing are always there.

Your breathing in at your nose or mouth and your eyes and ears are always there.

Follow by Email

Google+ Followers

Total Pageviews

Connect

About Chris

I've had a full life of love and learning and laughter.
The love of my life appeared on my mother and son's birthday, March 24, in 2015.
On March 5, 2016 we were married.

We are training in Co-Active coaching. Look it up. It's trained the most people in the world and is the most honoring of the client.

In Co-Active coaching we honor your need to go within, discover your strengths and values and resources and become even more amazing. No advice: just deep, deep, deep listening

In the past I've learned from and loved: Being Present, the Gurdjieff work, the work of Byron Katie (60 days with her), the Feldenkrais Method® & the Anat Baniel Method,
and Energy for Success, a 5000 year old system

Most of all, love has guided and blessed me. You can see it in the pictures.

If you want more love, more presence, more happiness, more success of a delighted and present nature, contact me.
And enjoy the blog, no matter what.
Cheers,
Chris